Dr. Othmar Frey

Position

• Senior Scientist & Lecturer (Faculty),
  leader of the research group SAR Remote Sensing Technology,
  associated with the Chair of Earth Observation and Remote Sensing.

Selected Projects

• REASSESS - external page Early Detection and Assessment of Railway Substructure Moisture Problems at National to Local Scale Using Spaceborne, Airborne and Train-based Remote Sensing Systems (Funding: external page ETH Zurich Foundation)
• Development of a car-borne SAR system (Funding: external page Innosuisse)
• Alpine Measurement Lab (Funding: external page Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN/BAFU))
• Algorithm Requirements Definition for ESA's Earth Explorer Mission BIOMASS (Funding: external page European Space Agency (ESA))
• Spaceborne SAR Tomography (Funding: external page State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI))
  
• Sensitivity Analysis for SAR Tomography (Funding: armasuisse)

    See also : Current / Previous Projects

PhD Students / PostDocs

• Magnus Heimpel
• Dr. Philipp Bernhard
• Fanyun Xu (Guest PhD student)
  

Former PhD Students:

• Dr. Simone Baffelli (now with external page EMPA)
  
• Dr. Roberto Coscione (now with external page Leica Geosystems)
  
• Dr. Muhammad Adnan Siddique (now with external page ITU)
  

Professional Education

• 2010 Ph.D. (Hons.) in Science from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, for a thesis on "Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging in the Time Domain for Nonlinear Sensor Trajectories and SAR Tomography".

• 2002 M.Sc. (Hons.) in Geomatic Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Employment Record

• 2011-date Senior Scientist & Lecturer (faculty member with permanent position since 2017) at ETH Zurich, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Enginnering.
  Current main activities: leading the research group on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Remote Sensing Technology and teaching/supervision at MSc and PhD level.

• 2011-date external page Senior Scientist at GAMMA Remote Sensing Research and Consulting Ltd. Current main activities include research projects & consulting, and application development related to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems, SAR imaging, interferometry, and SAR tomography, as well as software development (GAMMA software for radar imaging/interferometry data processing and value adding).

• 2004-2010 Research Associate & PhD Position at the Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zurich.
  Research and development in the field of SAR signal processing. Implementation of a signal-processing software for data processing of advanced imaging modes, such as airborne SAR tomography and SAR data acquisitions from nonlinear flight tracks. Design of airborne SAR experiments.

• 2002-2004 Research Associate at the Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zurich.
  Pre-phase studies related to the spaceborne SAR system TerraSAR-X on behalf of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) including a geometric error budget analysis for TerraSAR-X data products and a study on atmospheric effects in synthetic aperture radar data.

• 2002 Research Associate at the Soil Physics Group, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zurich.
  Geostatistical analysis and filtering of X-ray computed tomography scans of soil samples.

Teaching

• 2011-date Lecturer at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
  102-0627-00L : Applied Radar Remote Sensing for Environmental Parameter Estimation.
  102-0617-01L : Methodologies for Image Processing of Remote Snesing Data.
  

• 2007-2010 Associate Lecturer at University of Zurich, Switzerland, teaching at bachelor and master level.
  SAR & LiDAR
  Remote Sensing III: Geometry, Radiometry, Classification
  Matlab Programming

A non-exhaustive collection of literature on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Remote Sensing